This paper examines the Open Hand Prone ‘vertical palm’ as a resource for participants in conversation for displaying their treatment of a co-participant’s – or their own – turn/action as interruptive. Through this practice participants can manage turn-taking by making it relevant for the co-participant to stop talking. The data for this study consist of video-recorded conversations in English and Finnish from domestic and institutional settings, as well as broadcast talk. Using multimodal conversation analysis, this study shows that the gesture occurs in situations involving overlapping/competitive talk or incompatible embodied activities that somehow affect the progressivity of the ongoing talk. This paper complements previous research on gesture studies and interaction by investigating the function these gestures take in stopping/interrupting a co-participant’s turn-at-talk across multiple settings, and by studying how the gesture functions as a part of a practice which has direct social consequences on the local organization of turn-taking.

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This paper uses conversation analysis to study other-initiated repair in multiactivity situations. The paper focuses on two aspects of the repair initiator's embodied conduct directly connected to the initiator's involvement in multiactivity: body torque and the suspension of a parallel manual activity. The analysis reveals how the body torque and suspension of manual activity, when co-occurring with otherinitiations of repair, display the OIR-speaker's temporary disengagement from the manual activity, and how this embodied conduct communicates downward prioritisation of the manual activity and increased involvement in the interaction. This paper shows that, to participants in a conversation and simultaneously involved in multiactivity, solving interactional trouble is prioritised over the progression of the parallel manual task, and that this hierarchisation of activities displays a strong preference towards restoration and maintenance of intersubjectivity. Data in English, Finnish, and French, excerpts in this paper in English and in French with English translation.

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